I encountered the same issue. When I sold the asteroid the faction name was given in the notification area.
Avorion 0.17.1 r11661
According to client log, I sold the asteroid at 2018-05-02 22-46-22.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Microsoft Windows 10 Home
AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor, 4000 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory 32.0 GB
clientlog_2018-05-02_22-07-39.txt
serverlog_2018-05-02_22-07-53.txt